Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this dissertation is to attempt to shed some light on the strategic issues and shortfalls that accompanied the OK Bazaars (1929) Ltd on its path from being the oldest and largest retailer in South Africa to becoming a spiralling loss-maker and being sold for a mere R1 at the end of what is probably the longest existing retail-trade history for a company this size in South Africa. Only a limited number of South African case studies exist in the field of Strategic Management and the writer will, in the latter part of the dissertation, condense the broad facts to a case study that will serve South African students in the field of Strategic Management. The study firstly follows a theoretical discussion on some Strategic Management theory, especially the two important concepts of vision and mission. This leads to the discussion of a model for Strategic Management or more specific, strategic analysis. The study then concludes with the application of the model on the OK Bazaars, which entails the essence of the report. The focus is on the company since the early seventies and thereafter up until its sale by The South African Breweries(SAB) in 1997. The period under discussion is fragmented into roughly the three decades, that is the seventies, the eighties and the years 1990 to 1997(the nineties). The writer at this stage wishes to emphasise that, due to a number of factors which will be discussed shortly, a broad analytical approach is followed on the seventies with a somewhat more detailed analysis being done on the eighties and, as far as is possible, a full-on analysis of the nineties. The reasons for this approach are as follows: • The 0K Bazaars in its pre-1997 form does not exist anymore and the people involved with the then-existing company are no longer available for comment. Almost no media-published material is available on the OK Bazaars during the seventies with only limited published material on the eighties. • Due to the SAB and Shoprite Holdings, the new owners of OK Bazaars, currently still being in a dispute as to the exact extent of the losses incurred by the OK just prior to the take-over and the nett asset value of the OK Bazaars at the time of the take-over, the situation surrounding the OK and its financial figures are very sensitive at present. As a result very little information is available from Shoprite with no information from SAB except the annual financial reports. By August 2000 there were still indications that the dispute was not yet resolved (De Vynck,2000). Due to the poor performance of OK Bazaars in the last years of its presence in the SAB stable, the annual financial reports of SAB also reflect the minimum information on the company (OK). It is however the aim of the writer to evaluate, with the somewhat limited information at hand, the company from a strategic management point of view and construct these facts to a practical case study for fellow students in this interesting field of management. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie proefskrif is om te poog om die strategiese probleme en tekortkominge uit te lig wat bygedra het tot die ondergang van OK Bazaars (1929) Bpk, vanaf die stadium dat die OK die grootste kleinhandelaar in Suid-Afrika was totdat dit 'n onomkeerbare verliesmaker geword het en verkoop is vir 'n skamele R1 aan die einde van wat waarskynlik die langsbestaande kleinhandelsgeskiedenis vir 'n maatskappy van hierdie grootte in Suid Afrika is. Daar bestaan slegs 'n beperkte aantal Suid Afrikaanse gevallestudies in die veld van Strategiese Bestuur en die skrywer sal, in die laaste deel van die proefskrif, die breër feite tot 'n gevallestudie reduseer wat gebruik kan word deur Suid Afrikaanse studente in the veld van Strategiese Bestuur. Die studie begin met 'n bespreking van sekere teoretiese aspekte van Strategiese Bestuur, veral die twee belangrike onderwerpe van visie en missie. Dit lei tot die bespreking van 'n model vir Strategiese Bestuur, of meer spesifiek strategiese ontleding of analise. Die studie gaan dan voort met die toepassing van die model op die OK Bazaars, wat die kern van die verslag vorm. Die fokus is op die maatskappy sedert die vroeë sewentigerjare en daarna tot en met die verkoop daarvan deur die SAB in 1997. Die tydperk onder bespreking word rofweg opgedeel in die drie dekades, naamlik die sewentigerjare, die tagtigerjare en die jare 1990 tot 1997 (die negentigerjare). Die skrywer wil reeds op hierdie stadium beklemtoon dat, as gevolg van 'n paar faktore wat hierna bespreek sal word, 'n breë oorsigtelike benadering gevolg word ten opsigte van die sewentigerjare met 'n ietwat meer gedetailleerde ontleding wat ten opsigte van die tagtigerjare gedoen word en, sover as moontlik, 'n volwaardige ontleding van die negentigerjare. Die redes vir hierdie benadering is as volg: • Die OK Bazaars soos dit gelyk het voor 1997 bestaan nie meer nie, en die persone wat betrokke was by die maatskappy soos dit op daardie stadium daar uitgesien het, is nie meer beskikbaar vir kommentaar nie. • Daar is feitlik geen media-gepubliseerde materiaal omtrent OK Bazaars gedurende die sewentigerjare beskikbaar nie, terwyl slegs beperkte gepubliseerde materiaal omtrent die tagtigerjare beskikbaar is. • As gevolg van die feit dat SAB en Shoprite Holdings, die nuwe eienaars van OK Bazaars, tans steeds in a dispuut is insake die presiese omvang van die verliese aangegaan deur die OK net voor die oorname asook die netto batewaarde van OK op die stadium van die oorname, is die situasie rakende die OK en die finansiële resultate daarvan hoogs sensitief op die oomblik. Gevolglik is baie min inligting beskikbaar vanaf Shoprite, terwyl geen inligting vanaf die SAB kant buiten die statutêre jaarverslae beskikbaar is nie. Teen Augustus 2000 was daar steeds aanduidings dat die dispuut nie opgelos is (De Vynck,2000). As gevolg van die swak vertoning van die OK Bazaars in die laaste jare waartydens dit nog binne die SAB stal geval het, reflekteer die jaarlikse finansiële verslae van die SAB slegs die minimum inligting omtrent die maatskappy (OK). Dit is egter die doel van die skrywer om met die beperkte inligting beskikbaar, die maatskappy uit 'n strategiese bestuur-oogpunt te evalueer en hierdie feite dan saam te voeg ten einde 'n praktiese gevallestudie daar te stel vir mede studente in hierdie interessante veld van bestuur.

Nesta dissertação apresento uma explicação para a aprendizagem e para o aprender a partir da Epistemologia Unitária, que proponho como uma síntese das reflexões do pesquisador chileno Humberto Maturana sobre o conhecer. Para isso, apresento uma histórico das concepções deste autor, que constituem a Biologia do Conhecer e a Biologia-Cultural. Reflito sobre quem é o ser humano que aprende e destaco a importância do conversar, concebido como o entrelaçamento entre o linguajear e o amar, que é a emoção que nos caracteriza como seres humanos biológico-culturais. / In this dissertation, I present an explanation concern learning and understand upon the Unitarian Epistemology, which I propose as a synthesis of Chilean researcher Humberto Maturana\'s reflections related knowledge. For this, I present a briefing of their conceptions, which constitute Biology of Knowledge and Biology-Cultural. I reflect about who is the human that learns and emphasizes about the importance to talk, conceived as the interweaving between language and love, which is the emotion that characterizes us as biological-cultural humans.

Nesta dissertação apresento uma explicação para a aprendizagem e para o aprender a partir da Epistemologia Unitária, que proponho como uma síntese das reflexões do pesquisador chileno Humberto Maturana sobre o conhecer. Para isso, apresento uma histórico das concepções deste autor, que constituem a Biologia do Conhecer e a Biologia-Cultural. Reflito sobre quem é o ser humano que aprende e destaco a importância do conversar, concebido como o entrelaçamento entre o linguajear e o amar, que é a emoção que nos caracteriza como seres humanos biológico-culturais. / In this dissertation, I present an explanation concern learning and understand upon the Unitarian Epistemology, which I propose as a synthesis of Chilean researcher Humberto Maturana\'s reflections related knowledge. For this, I present a briefing of their conceptions, which constitute Biology of Knowledge and Biology-Cultural. I reflect about who is the human that learns and emphasizes about the importance to talk, conceived as the interweaving between language and love, which is the emotion that characterizes us as biological-cultural humans.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-132).

Τα τελευταία χρόνια η πρόσβαση στον παγκόσμιο ιστό δεν περιορίζεται μόνο στους επιτραπέζιους υπολογιστές αλλά πλέον περιλαμβάνει τα κινητά τηλέφωνα, τα PDAs και γενικότερα κάθε είδους κινητή συσκευή. Μάλιστα, στις αναπτυσσόμενες χώρες ο αριθμός των χρηστών που πλοηγούνται στον παγκόσμιο ιστό από κινητές συσκευές είναι μεγαλύτερος από αυτόν των χρηστών που πλοηγούνται μέσω επιτραπέζιων υπολογιστών. Επίσης, η ανάπτυξη περιεχομένου για τον παγκόσμιο ιστό έχει γίνει ευκολότερη λόγω της ύπαρξης αρκετών εργαλείων, που υπόσχονται τη γρήγορη και εύκολη παραγωγή του, χωρίς να απαιτούνται ιδιαίτερες γνώσεις από το χρήστη. Το ερώτημα είναι ποια χαρακτηριστικά θα πρέπει να έχουν οι ιστότοποι και το περιεχόμενό τους ώστε να προσφέρεται η βέλτιστη εμπειρία πλοήγησης στους χρήστες κινητών συσκευών. Το World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) έχει συντάξει τις πρακτικές που θα πρέπει να εφαρμόζονται για τη σωστή παρουσίαση του περιεχομένου του παγκόσμιου ιστού σε κινητές συσκευές (Mobile Web Best Practices). Η συμμόρφωση με τις πρακτικές αυτές είναι απαραίτητη κυρίως λόγω των περιορισμών των κινητών συσκευών. Οι κυριότεροι περιορισμοί είναι το μικρό μέγεθος οθόνης, ο τρόπος εισαγωγής δεδομένων στη συσκευή από το χρήστη, η διαθέσιμη μνήμη, η μικρή υπολογιστική ισχύ, η ταχύτητα μετάδοσης δεδομένων και η αυτονομία των συσκευών σε ενέργεια. Οι παραπάνω πρακτικές έχουν αντιστοιχηθεί, από το ίδιο το W3C, σε μία σειρά από ελέγχους που μπορούν να γίνουν στη δομή και το περιεχόμενο μιας ιστοσελίδας. Οι έλεγχοι αυτοί αποσκοπούν στο να εξασφαλίσουν ότι η συγκεκριμένη ιστοσελίδα μπορεί να προσφέρει μία αποδεκτή εμπειρία πλοήγησης στους χρήστες κινητών συσκευών. Ένα μέρος από τις πρακτικές αυτές ορίζουν ελέγχους που μπορούν να πραγματοποιηθούν αυτόματα με τη χρήση υπολογιστή, ενώ άλλες ελέγχους που απαιτούν και την ανθρώπινη κρίση. Στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής, αφού παρουσιάστηκαν και αναλύθηκαν οι πρακτικές του W3C, σχεδιάστηκε και υλοποιήθηκε σύστημα για την αξιολόγηση της δομής και του περιεχομένου ιστότοπων που απευθύνονται σε κινητές συσκευές. Σκοπός του συστήματος είναι ανάλυση του ιστότοπου, η ανάκτηση των ιστοσελίδων που τον αποτελούν και ο έλεγχος της κάθε ιστοσελίδας για την ικανοποίηση ή όχι των παραπάνω ελέγχων. Τελικός στόχος αποτελεί η δημιουργία αναφοράς που θα αφορά συνολικά τον ιστότοπο καθώς και η παραγωγή βαθμού αξιολόγησης του ιστότοπου. Επίσης, ιδιαίτερο βάρος δόθηκε στην ανάκτηση και την αξιολόγηση σελίδων και περιεχομένου του ιστότοπου που αποτελούν μέρος του «κρυμμένου ιστού» (hidden web). Τέλος, στους χρήστες του συστήματος δίνεται η δυνατότητα χρήσης βαρών σημαντικότητας των ελέγχων που πραγματοποιούνται. / During the last years the access to the Web, not only from desktop PCs but from mobile devices too, such as mobile phones and PDAs, is a fact. Furthermore, in developing countries the number of users that browse the Web through mobile devices is larger than the number of users that browses the web from desktop PCs. Also, the creation of web content is much easier, due to a large number of applications that promise the fast and easy creation of web content without demanding special knowledge from their users. The question is which characteristics the web sites and their content should have in order to improve the user experience when accessed from mobile devices. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has gathered the practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices (Mobile Web Best Practices). Those practices are strongly recommended because of the limitations of mobile devices. Those limitations are the small screen size, the inputting text method, the available memory, the small computational power and the power consumption. W3C, based on the above practices, has published a set of tests that refer to the structure and the content of a web page. Web pages which pass the tests provide a functional user experience for users of mobile devices. Some of the practices define tests that are machine verifiable and others tests that require the human judge as well. In this thesis at first the W3C Mobile Web Best practices are presented. Then, a system for the evaluation of the content and the structure of mobile web sites was designed and implemented. Purpose of the system is the analysis of a web site, the crawling of its web pages and the check of every web page against the W3C tests. The final goal of the system is to provide a report and a rating for the whole web site. Also, a module for crawling and evaluating content of the web site that is part of the "hidden web" is provided. Finally, the system's users may put weights of importance to each W3C test.

Föremålet för denna undersökning är en isländsk handskrift från 1300-talet, AM 231 VII fol., som innehåller ett fragment av Barlaams saga ok Josaphats. Fragmentet består av två skadade pergamentblad och flera forskare har hävdat att dess upphovsman är densamme som har skrivit Uppsala-Eddan, även kallad DG 11. AM 231 VII fol. har dock aldrig givits ut separat eller stått i fokus för en ingående undersökning om dess paleografiska och ortografiska drag. Syftet med uppsatsen är att presentera en diplomatarisk utgåva av handskriften, granska dess paleografi och språkformer och bilda ett pålitligt underlag för en jämförelse mellan den och DG 11. En sådan jämförelse faller emellertid utanför ramen för denna uppsats. På grundval av den paleografiska undersökningen har jag på en makropaleografisk nivå kunnat etablera handskriftens graftyper och på en mikropaleografisk nivå dess graftypsvarianter. Dessutom har jag ur skrifthistoriskt perspektiv kategoriserat skriften i fragmentet som tillhörande den gotiska skrifttypen Northern Textualis, även om vissa kursiva drag också går att iaktta. Resultaten av den ortografiska undersökningen motsäger delvis de tidigare redogörelserna av handskriftens språkformer. I synnerhet gäller detta: 1) representationen av den bakre trycksvaga vokalen, som oftast är \o\, medan \v\ bara förekommer några gånger; 2) den främre trycksvaga vokalen skrivs alltid \i\, förutom i ett fall där graftypen \e\ används; 3) reflexivändelsen i verben skrivs både \z\ och \zt\; 4) norvagismerna är fler än man tidigare hade iakttagit: den oomljudda ordformen \mannoþvm\; skrivningarna med \e\ för förväntat /æ:/ efter velar och nasal konsonant; \þ\ för förväntat /d/ efter nasal konsonant och efter /l/; ordformen \herbyrgi\. De nya yngre drag som jag har kunnat iaktta är följande: det ofta förekommande bruket av \av\ för /ɔ/ istället för \o\; fonemet /æ:/ skrivs oftast \æ\ och bara några gånger e med hake; /l/ dubbeltecknas alltid framför /d/ och /t/; reflexivändelsen i verben är ibland \zt\. Som äldre drag räknar jag bruket av graftypen \o\ för den bakre trycksvaga vokalen. Vokallängden markeras ibland genom överskriven accenttecken i kortare ord, men oftast markeras den inte. Dubbelteckning av \a\ förekommer uteslutande i namn av icke-nordiskt ursprung. Fonemen /a:/ och /ɔ:/ har sammanfallit och skrivs \a\. Fonemen /æ:/ och /ø:/ har också sammanfallit och skrivs båda två \æ\. Konsonantlängden markeras oftast genom dubbelteckning men vissa långa konsonantiska fonem betecknas genom överskriven punkt: /t:/, med kapitäl, /g:/, /m:/, och /r:/, eller med särskilda graftypsvarianter, /n:/. Kapitälerna har i vissa fall endast framhållande funktion eller förekommer i samband med supralinjära förkortningstecken. Visst inflytande från den latinska skrifttraditionen kan noteras i skrivningen \qv\ för /kw/.

This thesis describes the features of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Oksapmin, a Papuan (Non-Austronesian) language of Papua New Guinea. Oksapmin is spoken by around 8000 people, most of whom reside in the Tekin valley in Sandaun Province. The analysis in this thesis is based on the study of data from both elicitation and text collection undertaken on two field trips between 2004 and 2006: from May to October 2004, and from October 2005 to January 2006. / A general introduction is provided in Chapter 1, phonology, phonotactics and morphophonology are discussed in Chapter 2, word classes in Chapter 3, demonstratives in Chapter 4, nouns in Chapter 5, postpositions in Chapter 6, noun phrase syntax in Chapter 7, verbs in Chapter 8, coverbs in Chapter 9, clausal syntax in Chapter 10, phrasal clitics in Chapter 11, and clause combining in Chapter 12. Four sample texts are provided as appendices. Sound files are provided on the accompanying CD for many of the examples scattered throughout the thesis, as well as for all the texts in the appendices. / The most interesting and important grammatical subsystem in Oksapmin is the evidential one, which permeates various areas of the grammar. Without proper knowledge of this system, one cannot make a single grammatical sentence in the language. Recall that evidentiality is, roughly speaking, when a speaker marks how he or she came about the knowledge on which a given utterance is based. Evidentiality in Oksapmin is indicated with past tense verbal inflection, with enclitics, and with a number of other constructions. The evidential system is typologically unusual in that the primary contrast it marks is participatory/factual versus visual/sensory evidence; this distinction is made in the verbal inflection. Participatory/factual evidentials are not widely attested cross-linguistically, and those systems that do exist have been largely ignored in the typological literature. / Some of the other areas of grammar discussed in this thesis include prenasalised consonants with nasal allophones, noun phrases with a complex syntactic structure, a range of demonstratives which distinguish for elevation, a large vocabulary of kin terms including a set of dyadic kin terms, extensive use of complex predicates consisting of a light verb plus a coverb, and a variety of clause combining strategies including clause chaining.

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Bible Seminary, 1988. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-158).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-172).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-132).